Katelyn Pike
Authorship & Works
About
Katelyn Pike
With stories of begrudging witches' ghosts, women fashioned out of wishbones, and mermaids struggling with their sexuality, author Katelyn Pike has always been interested in writing about topics both beautiful and brutal. Her speculative and literary short fiction has appeared in The Minnesota Review, Another Chicago Review, Parhelion, Orca, and Alchemy Literary Magazine, among other publications. A former resident of Portland, Oregon, she now lives in her family’s hometown of Saint Louis, Missouri. In her free time, she enjoys planning murder mystery dinners, exploring National Parks, and cooking soup in a large stockpot she can pretend is a cauldron. Her upcoming novel, Chappelwitch, is under contract for publication with Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, for October 2027.
The fact that a demon occasionally possessed Foster’s girlfriend was not a dealbreaker, per se—whispers in one’s ear, consume, taste everything, take everyone, bite out that one’s tongue and swallow it—but on this morning in particular, Foster could not help but wonder with whom he’d shared his bed last night.
—“Overpossessive”
She grew gills because she wanted, more than anything, to kiss Jem Chakravarti on the mouth. That sudden desire—the utter, unfair ambush of that longing at the end-of-summer carnival—cut fishy slits from the girl’s temple to her jawbone. It was a gasp of transformation: the reverse tadpole effect. No more baby teeth for this girl, oh no. At once, a moray’s pointed molars pierced through the girl’s pink gums.
—“A Siren’s Song”
Lindy Conners woke up dead on the day she would have turned twenty-five. For a single blissful moment, she remained oblivious to her new state. She stretched her arms and legs out across the mattress, reveling in the luxury, the cocoon of the warm sheets. As she continued to lie there, however, and the five more minutes she had promised herself in bed ticked away, awareness of her own death filled her slowly, like light filling a room.
— “Lindy Connors has a Quarter Death Crisis”
Email: katelynpikebooks@gmail.com